Nov 08, 2018 - Sale 2492

Sale 2492 - Lot 277

Price Realized: $ 260
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Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
(GEORGE GERSHWIN--PORGY & BESS.) Samuel Goldwyn Motion Picture Production of Porgy & Bess Signed by Duke Ellington, Richard Rodgers, director Otto Preminger, principal cast members Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Brock Peters, and 6 others, on rear endpapers. Small folio, pictorial boards, minor wear to spine edges and ends; signature of Peters retraced by him. (New York, 1959); inscription: [New York, 24 June 1959?]
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Duke Ellington Richard Rodgers Otto Preminger Dorothy Dandridge Sammy Davis Jr. Ruth Attaway Brock Peters Mary Martin Red Buttons Edward R. Murrow Barry Gray Bennett Cerf.

The New York premiere of Porgy & Bess took place at the Warner Theater on June 24, 1959, where this book was likely signed.